Delhi Police recruitment exam scam accused held from Haryana after two years
Press Trust of India | September 8, 2024 | 06:06 PM IST | 1 min read
The accused allegedly forged the signature of an institute's official to prepare the documents of proprietorship for the rented premises to conduct an online examination.
NEW DELHI: Kota city police has arrested one of the accused, who was on the run for two years, in the alleged Delhi Police recruitment exam scam, a police official said. The accused was also wanted by the Kota police in another case related to forged documents.
Akhilesh Kumar Singh (32), a resident of the Jamui district in Bihar and currently living in Delhi's Rohini, was arrested from Haryana's Jind district on Saturday in connection with a case of forged documents, Kota City SP Amrita Duhan said. Akhilesh is one of the accused in the Delhi Police recruitment exam scam, she added. Akhilesh took on rent the premises of Kota's Messrs Om Kothari Foundation for conducting an online examination in 2020.
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The accused, along with a local person identified as Himanshu Rathore, allegedly forged the signature of an official of the institute to prepare the required documents of proprietorship, and got it allotted as an online examination centre for the Delhi Police recruitment exam, police said. The scam was exposed in 2022 and a case was registered by the Delhi Police's crime branch.
During investigation, it was learnt that the computers of some candidates at the exam centre in Kota were connected online with the gang's members in Delhi, who would solve the entire paper from there, the SP city said, adding that Delhi Police had already arrested several people in connection with the alleged scam.
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